love truth work
vs.
neuroborreliosis
(& other varied demons/jerks)
tammy neff, andrew cunningham, yot
...
No religion.
Nothing to worship,
Just to feeling.
Music...
True religion.
Nothing to worship,
Just to feel."
-Carlos Soul Slinger
fearless creation and:
-the sound two friends make together:
covered in frogs/ winter's love
-the sound two lovers make together:
purple bottle
-the sound a whole family of animals make together:
brother sport
friends make so much freaking noise (please don't ever stop):
%2 Majesty
Alec K. Redfearn & the Eyesores
Ambivalent Elephant
Annikki Dawn
Anti-Product
Big Huge, The
Boird Band
Brainfroot Productions
Broadcast Live
Chris Yang
Dave End
Dead Science, The
Diane
DJ Juniper
Dose The Alien
Dreamhouse
Drillhead
Echoes From Elba
Exelar, The
Exploding Turtle Dream
Flagpoles, The
Get Fresh Crew
Grain Of Salt
Halo Fauna
Happy Accidents
Hello, Halebopp
Holy Haunted Head
I Farm
I Robot
Jack Tung
Jackson Brothers (JBC)
Jesse Sparhawk
Jordaan Mason
Jordan O' Jordan
Kevin Kober (A Satellite Crash, All Immune, etc.)
Kevin Tobler
Kite Operations
Laotree Jackson
La Cacahouette
Laser Awesome
Le Butterface
L'Hiver
Los Doggies & Synaesthesia
Mansion Kingdom
Matt Ross
Micah Blue Smaldone
Michael Truckpile
Nancy
Obin Robinson
Orion Rigel Dommisse
Pens And Pencils
Quitzow
Red Sled Choir
Richard Laviolette
Salix
Sarah D.
Setting Sun
Seven Swords
Shadowmaps
Shamsi Ruhe
Skeletonbreath
Swath
Taina Asili
Talibam!
Theo Christie
TwistyCat
Victory Beard
Whatever Jailer
ones that i view on theinsideofmyeyelids.
Tideland. The Neverending Story. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. The Fisher King. Heavenly Creatures. The Butcher Boy. Donnie Darko. Southland Tales. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams. The Secret of (the rats of) NIMH. Dark Crystal. Goonies. Twin Peaks (it is absolutely necessary to watch seasons one and two first before seeing "Fire Walk With Me". like, crucial, ok?). Blue Velvet. INLAND EMPIRE. Pretty as a Picture (the Art of David Lynch). A Scanner Darkly. Pump up the Volume. Powell Peralta's Ban This & Public Domain. H Street's Hokus Pokus & Shakle Me Not. Perry Farrell & Casey Niccoli's Gift. Clash of the Titans. Jupiter's Wife. Ghostbusters. Amelie. Home Movie. Rising Son: the Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi. Beat Street. High Tech Soul. You're Gonna Miss Me. Grizzly Man. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. Lord of the Rings trilogy. the original and only Star Wars trilogy (someone needs to finally make the prequel trilogy. i've been waiting a quarter of a century for that shit!). Perfume. Zero Effect. The Last Mimzy. The Devil and Daniel Johnston. Dark Days. The Way Things Go. David Blaine's Fearless. Niagara Niagara. The Reflecting Skin. The Devil's Backbone. Pan's Labyrinth (The Labyrinth of the Faun). Dancer in the Dark. eXistenZ. Hellraiser. RIZE. Edward Scissorhands. the Brothers Quay. Jan Svankmajer. Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, & Princess Mononoke. the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. Something Wicked This Way Comes. All Summer in a Day.
some movies you won't find on Netflix or YouTomb: Wax (Or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees). the films of Joe Quinn. animations by Dennis Ryan. Me, Laotree, & the Prof's final project film for Sonic Measures class (a furious visual and sonic assault which, upon the completion of viewing, our teacher Terry Adkins proclaimed: "That was a motherf@#*er!" and promptly lit up a cigarette IN THE CLASSROOM. we all got to smoke in class that day). JBC at the movies: Which One of the Jackson Brothers Will Die Tonight?, The Attack on Waterstreet Market, Prof Goes Apeshit, & Sunday the 15th. the Atkinson family films: Open House, Renegade, & the unfinished motion pictures "The Murderer With the Guitar" and "Hobo Island".
gubbish gubbish
TV melts brains.
these categories should be here instead:
Favorite Visual Artists:
Joe Quinn, Joshua Kopit ("while, somewhere, with your pliers and glue you make your first incision"), Devin Jimmink , Justin Atkinson , No02 and SEEM(stress), Eric Swanson , Curtis Bohner, Rick Holland , Jen Cronin, Jennifer Tuttle, Yuriko Miwa (U-D), Kyla Cech , Myra Hage, Thomas Doran, Charm, Matt Gordon, Mary Beth Wehrung, Lauren Camarata, KV , Kabir Deleeuw, Jessica Beechler, Kari Temming, Michelle Tinner, Amy Walker , Jessie Archambault, Evan and Jesse Stormo , Jessica Tamson Price , Gia Sabatini , Don Unger, Greta, Kathy Goodell , some of the students i have worked with at The Children's Annex: Joonie (J.Wo, an imaginary line of clothing for radical autistic grrrls/superheroes), Avrumi, Ewan (specialized in drawing/sculpting boots and puffy jackets), "Kaprinski" (fellow horror vacui/kenophobe), Sydney, Steven (the MASTER of Legos and Blocks), etc... Erika Spring, August Garufi, Dr. Israel Rosefsky, Gary Thrasher, Mason Mastrioanni, Johnny Hart, Bill Watterson, Sergio Aragones Domenech, Antonio Prohias, Al Jaffee, Don Martin (even though he jumped ship to "Cracked Magazine"), Theodor Seuss Geisel, Maurice Sendak, Peter Sis , Jim Henson & his Creature Shop, Brian Froud, those responsible for "Goblins Alley" & other amazing environments/paintings at the Ithaca Gun Factory (of which some documentation was found HERE ), M.C. Escher,
Michael Hague , Louis Wain, The Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists ,
Jared & Jessica Joslin , Collette Calascione ,
Xiaoqing Ding , August Natterer, Survival Research Labs , Albrecht Durer, Ernst Haeckel , Garnett Puett's Apisculpture, Will Cullen Hart , Hannah Jones , Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (J.J. Grandville), Carlos Soul Slinger & Claudia Rey's Liquid Sky D-Sign (Love Saves the Day, Music Saves Our Lives!), Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, Peretz Bernstein (peripheral/Perry Farrel), David Lynch, Clive Barker, Wesley Willis , Alex Grey , H.R. Giger , Adolf Wolfli, Daniel Johnston, Joseph Beuys , Hannah Hoch , Henry Darger, Wilfred Satty, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, Joel Peter Witkin ...
Favorite Dancers:
Clint Lutes , Tammy Neff, Boobeline/Melasond, Pepper Ochsner,
Lisa Natyshak and Brandy (Yummy F****n' Snax!), Dan D'angelo and Sam, Jennifer Tuttle, Sonya Peppard, Rick Holland, Josh Kopit and the Prof (so adorable), Myra Hage, and Kabir Deleeuw, Audrey Horne, The Man From Another Place, Michael Jackson, Perry Farrel, Pee-Wee Herman, all b-boys & b-girls past and present (popping and locking and uprock=my favorite), c-walking, everyone involved in the K.R.U.M.P. movement (total life affirmation!!!), and anyone who ghostrides anything (including the bus)...
Favorite Performance Artists:
Steven Wright , David Blaine, Matt Mottel/Flanged Confections, Ed Bear, Carl Welden, Lightning Bolt, and The Second Hand Dance Company (R.I.P.)...
Favorite Skaters:
Christian Hosoi, Lance Mountain, Ray Barbee, Rodney Mullen, Per Welinder, Thomas Doran, and Bon Sadman...
i don't know what you call it ("Indoor Parkour "?), but when Matt Gordon starts from his bed on the second floor of his house and makes it around the corner, all of the way downstairs, around another corner and hallway, through the kitchen, and around yet another corner and onto Matt Ross' bed without ever touching the floor or any steps, that is the best thing ever.
in watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.
the life's work of Richard Brautigan; and all writers below: i'm super stoked on everything they've ever written, and/or everything that i've ever read, etc. "The Navidson Record" - Zampano. Philip K. Dick. Clive Barker. Mad Libs. "Stalking the Wild Pendulum" - Itzhak Bentov. "Cosmic Trigger" - Robert Anton Wilson. Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa. Ray Bradbury. Whitley Strieber. "Mole People" - Jennifer Toth. "Alien Agenda" - Jim Marrs. Madeleine L'Engel. Paramahansa Yogananda. H.P. Lovecraft. "The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge" - Jeremy Narby. Kurt Vonnegut. "Remote Viewers" - Jim Schnabel. Joe McMoneagle. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami. Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "Le Petit Prince" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Oliver Sacks. Roald Dahl. Sylvia Plath. Emily Dickinson. Alan Moore. J.R.R. Tolkien. "Abducted" - John E. Mack. "DMT: the Spirit Molecule" - Rick Strassman. e.e.cummings. William S. Burroughs. Allen Ginsberg. "Bridge to Terabithia" - Katherine Paterson. Rikki Ducornet. Don Unger . William Boyle . Charlie Rahway. Devin Jimmink . Mike Deuce . Jenn Nunes . Kabir Deleeuw . Kate Larson . Joe Quinn. Bernhard Guenther . D.a.r.y.l. . Dominic Armao. Thomas Doran. Raul Pembrook M.D. ...i don't remember if i, or who i, lent my copy to of "I Can Hear Me Fine" by Jean Smith... i haven't seen it in years and have been itching to read it again. also, if anyone knows where i can find a copy of "Invisible Residents- A Disquisition upon Certain Matters Maritime, and the Possibility of Intelligent Life under the Waters of This Earth" by Ivan T. Sanderson, let me know, i am very interested.
you.
the Kingdom's: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protoctista, Archaea and Prokaryota. it is so very brave to come to this earth to be a living thing and to participate in the great web of life, in the face of such great pain and confusion and adversity. thank you to all of the lifeforms that have taught me things, like: how to love & be loved, how to forgive & be forgiven, how to fight for goodness, and how to become a better person & help others (i'm still learning!). some of you had to leave this place much too soon and i miss you dearly. you fought really hard. i hope you found peace. your beautiful movement through this place amazed/amazes me and teaches me and breaks my heart. you are always remembered and you are loved: Julie Bovee, Sally Salsbury, Pop Pop & Mar (Paul & Marge Thrasher), Brian Cahill, Ziven Bilski, Aarik Noyes, Katia Doison, Paul Koekebakker, Micah Conover, "Fantasy" Steve (from Ohioville Liquor Store, New Paltz, NY), Jason Bean, Jason Koziatek (Jay Bone), Jay Lavalle, Louis Angel & Mimi Del Valle, Bauer (the dog), Lucy Tumms (the cat), Prince Alabaster (the rabbit), Tommy (the rat), Stowie (the goldfish), Norman (the hermit crab), Cabbage-Face (the snail), & Yot (the alien).